We the subscribers, composing the Presbyterian congregation, commonly known by the name of the congregation of Pictou Harbour, taking unto consideration our destitute situation in consequence of the Reverend Thomas McCulloch D.D. our former pastor's demission of his charge, and especially that we are deprived of the public ordinances of the gospel whereby sinners are gathered unto Christ and built up in him, and in this respect are as sheep withou a sheppherd: and being well apprized of the piety, [prudence], literature, and other ininsterial qualifications of you the Rev. John McKinlay and the suitableness of the gifts bestowed on you by the blessed head of the church for our edification, we call and invite you to become our pastor, to take the charge of our souls, and the dispense to us the ordinances of grace; and we promise you all due subsistence, encouragement, and subjection in the Lord.
And we pray the Reverend teh Presbytery of Pictou, under whose inspection we are, to take the necessary steps to have you placed over us as soon as circumstances will permit.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto subjected our hands this third day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty four
John Patterson
Robt Dawson
Dagal Carmichel
James Millar
Mathew Patterson
James Patterson
Mrs Mortimer
Edwd Patterson
James Fraser
David Patterson
Thos Dickson
A W Patterson
David Lowden
John Geddie
William Patterson
John W Harris
James Primrose
Thos. H. Patterson
Paul Foster
Jotham Blanchard
The above Eighteen Signatures are the hand writing of the said individuals respetively attested to by Duncan Ross, John McLean
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We the Subscribers having been absent on the day the foregoing call was moderated do now signify our assent thereto —
John Taylor
Thomas Lowden
James Fogo
Andrew Millar
William McDougall
John McKay
William Campbell Junior
William Corbet
Thomas Proudfoot
William Brown
Chas
John Dawson
Rob H Pagan
Murdock McKenzie
Edwd Smith Fraser
Sarah Mortimer
John Russell
Charles Evans
Joseph Carruthers
Jam G Archibald
William Romans
George Young
Michael McCulloch
John Harris
Geo Smith
Donald McLean
Jno Bo--ne
George Grant
David Davison
James Tate
James McNaught
William Murdoch
James Murdoch
James Dawson
Will Rankine
George Trees?
William Campbell Senior
Thos Patterson
James McIntyre
George McKenzie [Junior'
Hugh McKay
Wm. Everett [Captain]
Charles Erskine [Carpenter]
Samuel Paulan
Joseph --
James Monro
Willima Adamson
John Adamson
Donald McDougall
William R. Pottinger
John Maxwell
John Fraser
William Lawrie
Joseph Begg
George Oliver
Robert McKay
George Johnson
P - Grant
John Yorston
David Murdock
John Thompson
